[The clientele of physiotherapists in private practice].
The aim of the study was to describe sociomedical characteristics of physiotherapy patients. A material of 466 patients answered questions about personal and social data and their disease. Women were significantly more frequent in the material than men (p less than 0.001). The following groups were underrepresented compared to the background population calculated by X2: 1) boys 0-9 years, 2) girls 0-19 years, 3) women more than 80 years old, 4) officials, 5) unskilled workers and 6) unemployed. The following groups were overrepresented: 1) women 30-39 years, 2) women 60-79 years, 3) pensioners and persons receiving public assistance and 4) students. More than half of the symptoms were located to the head-neck or back-thorax-loin. The cause was most often primarily somatic (46%), while 25% had an occupational genesis.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011331:Private Practice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Privatpraktiserende fysioterapeuters klientel.